| The Listening Program  Overview
How it Works Auditory Processing Science & Music Modular Design Using TLP Your Certified Provider
Melissa East The Honeybee Difference Other Products Sound Health BrainBuilder Music for Babies Music for the Mind Additional Resources Listening Checklist Other Checklists and Resources Site Contents / Map | | | The Listening Program TLP’s ABC Modular Design The Listening Program’s patent-pending ABC Modular Design™ takes the program a step farther, enabling listeners to effectively exercise the auditory processing system, providing “warm-up,” “workout” and “cool-down” phases. To explain, imagine that you want to strengthen your arm muscles. What if you attempted weight levels far beyond your capacity? Or if you overworked muscle groups with excessive reps? Or trained sporadically, maybe just once every other week? As you know, properly increasing physical strength depends on the right approach. Exercise science (and practical application) shows that certain approaches are most effective, such as a gradual warm-up for muscle groups, followed by weight-resistance training, concluded by cool-down stretching. Following a similar pattern, TLP music is segmented into15-minute modules. Within these modules, the first phase, “A,” relaxes and prepares the auditory processing system for the more intensive stimulation of the “B” phase. The listener is then returned to a relaxed state during the final “C” phase. Why ABC Modular Design is Critical 
This breakthrough design is important because effective stimulation depends on more than carefully selected classical music and psychoacoustic enhancements. It also requires the listener’s auditory processing system to be prepared to receive the information.
The studies of research psychologist Stephen Porges, PhD, assert that a listener needs to be relaxed in order for neural feedback to properly control and modify the function of the middle ear. Dr. Porges’ research, which builds on the work of Alfred Tomatis, MD and ENT specialist Guy Berard, MD, indicates that when in a state of stress of anxiety (as so many with auditory processing problems are much of the time), the ear cannot easily discriminate higher frequencies. This leads to a decline in auditory processing abilities, which compounds other abilities. Thus, the ABC Modular Design enhances the effect of Music-Based Auditory Stimulation™. By properly preparing the listener, then providing just the right amount of stimulation, and finally restoring the listener to relaxation, the listening experience brings about positive, significant results. With TLP music, improving the auditory processing system is more than a therapeutic endeavor; it is a pleasurable, enlightening listening experience that has been clinically proven to help enhance abilities. | | | 
TLP's breakthrough modular design prepares, stimulates and restores relaxation to the listener
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